A Paper Trail of Time

 A woman I knew shared this from her then 99-year-old mother: “Time is like a toilet paper roll. The closer you are to the end, the faster it goes.” There are a lot of theories about why our perception of time changes. One says that it’s about having an ever-growing...

A by-the-book return to joy

My friend, the author John Ketwig, and I were having an email exchange about books recently. Though we’ve now known each other for many years, describing to each other the contents of our various bookshelves and random stacks of books (the to-be-read piles holding the...

Unlearning My Way Forward

  A handful of years ago, I asked my mom to recount for me a bit of family lore. It was the kind of story that infuses most families, so deeply interwoven that it doesn’t often occur to us to examine it more closely, to check whether the story was, in fact, woven...

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